Yes added to Black Americans, Mexican Americans, as well as the whole panoply of other "Hyphenated Americans," is it any wonder that we have stopped being a melting pot where all assimilate and strive to become, just, AMERICANS?
Funny, both my parents emigrated to the US from Montreal as I'm sure many Freepers had parents/grand-parents who emigrated from other countries such as Germany, Italy, Greece, etc.
Why is it, they never thought of themselves as German-Americans, Italian Americans, etc.
I many be mistaken, but was it not blacks who first began this practice of hyphenation?
And while on the same subject, why don't we see many Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and other Orientals who choose to be called --------Americans?
There are many who are proud of their ancestry and heritage and if we wanted to take this to the a ridiculous extreme, every single one of us could refer themselves as ------- Americans.
Pray tell, in which other country does this ludicrous practice exists?
Has anyone ever heard someone referred to an Somalian-German, or an Egyptian-Italian, or a Turkis-Frenchman or even, an African-Canadian?
IMHO, however, either someone is American or they are not. Which is it going to be?
Lot of “white” Americans refer to themselves as Italian-American, German-American or Irish-American.
If I'm not mistaken, and I don't think I am, I recall the Reverend Jesse Jackson coining the the term African-American in the 60's. It was during what they called their cultural identity crisis in which he said that they "weren't Americans, they were African-Americans."
This is all part of a larger goal by the Left, the subjugation of America. So is feminism, gay rights, political correctness, etc. The idea is to divide and conquer by sowing confusion and resentment among the various groups resulting in fragmentation rather than cohesion.